MSNBC managed to capture a really cool moment just after the Supreme Court made its rulings on the Defence Of Marriage Act and California’s Proposition 8. President Obama himself called the plaintiffs in the Proposition 8 case to congratulate them on the incredible day.
According to Politico, the president called the couple just moments before he issued an official statement. He was on Air Force One on his way to Africa.
“We're proud of you guys, and we're proud to have this in California,” he told them on the phone. “And it's because of your leadership things are heading the right way. So you should be very proud today.”
Obama added, “Through your courage, you're helping out a whole lot of people everywhere.”
In his official statement, Obama said, “The laws of our land are catching up to the fundamental truth that millions of Americans hold in our hearts: when all Americans are treated as equal, no matter who they are or whom they love, we are all more free.”
He said that DOMA had “discrimination was enshrined in law” and was happy to see it go. It “treated loving, committed gay and lesbian couples as a separate and lesser class of people. The Supreme Court has righted that wrong, and our country is better off for it. We are a people who declared that we are all created equal – and the love we commit to one another must be equal as well.”
The Supreme Court found DOMA, the law that barred the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriage, unconstitutional. In the Proposition 8 case, the court did not make a ruling. Instead, ABC News reports, it dismissed the case and gay marriages in California can now begin again.
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